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Trenton Nored, left, is shown during his plea and sentencing hearing Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court alongside his attorney, Lou DeFabio.
YOUNGSTOWN An assistant county prosecutor told Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that the behavior of a Coitsville Township police officer, when the officer chased a man on a moped Aug. 6, 2020, is a reason for the type of plea agreement the man received this week.
Assistant Prosecutor Nick Brevetta told The Vindicator he would not discuss the specifics of the officer’s behavior, but a letter from Youngstown Police Department internal affairs officer Brian Butler sheds some light on it.
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YOUNGSTOWN Arturo Novoa, sentenced to 48 years to life in prison in 2019 for murdering his girlfriend, Shannon Graves, 29, then mutilating and hiding her body, is asking for his convictions to be overturned.
A lawyer with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, however, responded to the appeal by saying Novoa’s case “presents some of the most gruesome and horrific details in Mahoning County and perhaps Ohio’s history.”
Novoa’s attorney, Lou DeFabio, argued in a filing with the 7th District Court of Appeals that when Novoa, now 34, entered his guilty plea to murder and 42 other charges, it wasn’t “knowing, intelligent and voluntary” because Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court did not make Novoa aware of the maximum penalty he faced.
YOUNGSTOWN Arturo Novoa, sentenced to 48-years-to-life in prison in 2019 for murdering his girlfriend, Shannon Graves, 29, then mutilating and hiding her bod
YOUNGSTOWN A man accused of holding dozens of law enforcement officers at bay for three hours at a home on Aberdeen Avenue on the South Side last summer is competent to stand trial.
Attorney Lou DeFabio told Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday that he and defendant Brandon Turjonis will not challenge the findings contained in a report from the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio in Austintown that Turjonis is competent to stand trial.
Under Ohio law, a person cannot be tried in court if he or she is incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the proceedings against him or her, and assisting in his or her defense.